Garment



L. M. ROUSE Get. w, 1944.

GARMENT Filed Feb. 17 f 1945 INVENTOR. [ILL/AN M. Pause ATTORNEYPatented Oct. 10, 1944 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT Lillian M.Rouse, New York, N. Y., assignor to Gohn-Hall-Marx 00., New York, N. Y.

Application February 17, 1943, Serial No. 476,190

3 Claims.

This invention relates to garments for women and girls and moreparticularly to garments of the type usually characterized as slacks.

The primary object of the present invention is the provision of slacksof such construction that they are well adapted to be Worn by stoutWomen and girls, although it will be understood that the garments aresuitable for thin or slender women or girls.

Another object of the invention is to provide a pair of slacks orsimilar garment of bifurcated construction having upper pleated backportions formed as continuations of the leg portions of the slacks andextending over the seat portion thereof so that the latter issubstantially concealed by said pleated vportions and so that when theleg portions are in adjacent relation, the appearance of the back of thegarment resembles that of a skirt, the construction of the garment as awhole being such that the front thereof has the appearance ofconventional slacks.

A further object of the invention is generally to improve theconstruction of garments of the above described type.

The above and other objects, features and advantages Will be fullyunderstood from the following description, reference being had to theaccompanying illustrative drawing:

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front view of a garment embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a view of the back of said garment;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the garment l0 embodying the presentinvention comprises the leg portions l2 which are completely separatefrom each other from the lower ends thereof to the crotch portion l4 andwhich are united with each other at the front seam l6 and at the rearseam l8 which extend at the front and back of the garment, respectively,to the waist band 28. As here shown, said waist band is separable at oneside of the garment as indicated at 22 at the top of the side placket 24which may be opened and closed in any suitable way, for example, by azipper or slide operated fastener.

The upper back portion of the garment is provided with pleats 26 and 28.The folded edge portion 30 of each of said pleats are stitched togetherby the seam 32 which extends for the full length of the leg portions I2.Said pleats are separable from each other to a point located abovecrotch l4 and below the waist band 20 as indicated at 34 and are securedto each other above said point by the seam 36 formed as a continuationof the crotch seam l8. It will be noted that when the leg portions l2are near each other the pleated portions 26 and 28 substantially concealthe seat part of the garment, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4, andfurther it will be observed that said pleated portions for-med ascontinuations of the leg parts of the garment provide ample room in theseat part of the garment.

Each leg portion I2 is preferably formed in two parts which are securedto each other at the inner and outer seams 38 and 40, respectively, theinner seams extending to the crotch l4 and the outer seams extending tothe bottom of the placket 24 at one side of the garment and to the waistband 20 at the other side of the garment. Also it will be noted that thefront parts of the leg portions l2 are creased and stitched as indicatedat 42. Further it will be noted that while the front stitched creases 42are located centrally of the front parts of the leg portions l2, thecreased and stitched edges 32 of the back parts of said leg portions aredisposed substantially in confronting relation as continuations of theconfronting folded edge portions 38 of the pleats 26 and 28, asillustrated in Figs. 2, 4 and 5.

Thus, it is seen that the garment constructed as herein shown ordescribed is well adapted to accomplish the purposes of the presentinvention. It will be understood, however, that certain changes in thedetails of construction and in the form or shape of the garment may bemade without departing from the underlying idea of this invention.Accordingly I do not wish to be limited to the specific constructionherein shown or described except to the extent which may be required bythe scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. A garment of the type described comprising leg portions separate fromeach other from the bottom of the garment to the crotch thereof, theupper parts of said le ortions being provided with pleats at the back ofthe garment, said pleats extending upwardly from said leg portions,respectively, to a point above the crotch of the garment, each of saidpleats and the companion leg portion having a folded edge portion which.is stitched along a line extending downwardly from said point to apoint below the crotch of the garment at the back of the garment.

2. A garment of the type described comprising leg portions separate fromeach other from the bottom of the garment to the crotch thereof, theupper parts of said leg portions being provided with pleats at the backof the garment, said pleats extending upwardly from said leg portions,respectively, to a point above the crotch of the garment, each of saidpleats and the companion leg portion having a folded edge portion whichis stitched along a line extending downwardly from said point to a pointbelow the crotch of the garment at the back of the garment, saidstitched folded edges of the two pleats and leg portions being disposedsub-stantially in confronting edge to edge relation at the back of thegarment.

3. A garment of the type described comprising leg portions separate fromeach other from the bottom of the garment to the crotch thereof, theupper parts of said leg portions being provided with pleats at the backof the garment, said pleats extending upwardly from said leg portions,respectively, to a point above the crotch of the garment, said pleatedportions being stitched together along a central line extending fromsaid point to the waist band of the garportions being disposedsubstantially incon-' fronting edge to edge relation at the back of thegarment.

LILLIAN M. ROUSE.

